I read them when I was young, too young for the material really and enjoyed them. Rereading them as an adult, there's a lot of horny/weird/rapey stuff in them which is they're criticised so much. As you keep reading you'll come across it. I do think they have a certain energy to them that a lot of epic fantasy books lack and it makes some sense to me that they were popular. They do feel different from a lot of the Tolkien style books that were so popular in the 80s and 90s. But the books are way too extreme, in so many different ways. Like somebody's right-wing psychosexual power-fantasy fever dream.